Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.

Nitor
Nitor medioximus, a rainforest snail, near Dungog, in Australia
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Nitor

Gude, 1911[2]

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Species within the genus Nitor include:

References

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  1. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. ^ Gude G. K. (1911). "Note on some preoccupied molluscan generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 269-273. page 270.
  3. ^ a b c d "Names List for Nitor Gude, 1911". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory. Last updated 26 July 2010, accessed 7 January 2011.
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